Satyen Nabar's Sun Spl analysed

Sunday, 12 October 2014

No 2812, Sunday 12 Oct 2014

ACROSS
1 Bridge player engrossed by word games causes quarrel (5,6) CROSS SWORDS {CROSS {S}WORDS}
9 Harps on about children like Annie? (7) ORPHANS*
10 Treading the boards, using one leg after another (2,5) ON STAGE{ON} {STAGE}
11 How graduates gained success at university, a little at a time? (2,7) BY DEGREES [DD]
12 Sea-eardaughter removed from the window (5) ORMERdORMER

Yes, now I find Vinod Raman has moved way up in the first ten, whose name was not appearing in the round 1. IXL might have given marks for mistakes in 1st round also and updated the overall leader board. But they have not altered the list in round 1,

Completed the ICL without much of a difficulty this time, except for a time-lag in the initial starHad mulled over the answer for one five letter word ihe NW corner. There should be one clue to send the solver in a tizzy !! Took more than fifteen minutes to confirm that I'm ok before shooting the blasted thing off !! Fairly easy this time.Congrats to all those who have clambered up the Ladder at the top ten. !!